A Roadmap to Better Decision Making

NEW FARMCON PODCAST - This week Kevin and Todd start out sharing the realities of getting older and facing it head on. Then, Kevin shares his current thoughts on the commodity markets and the pair dive deep into “data" in response to a reader's email following our Scope 3/Biological Pivot story on Monday. Kevin goes on to share his perspective ...

A digital twin is essentially a living virtual model of a real-world system. In agriculture, that system could be a field, a greenhouse, a grain facility, a herd, or an entire farm operation. The important distinction is that a true digital twin is not just a one-time simulation or a prettier map. It is continuously updated with real-world data so ...

For decades, the back of a cereal box told a simple story: calories, sugar counts, and a standard list of vitamins. It was a narrative of basic chemistry, designed for a yield-first agricultural system focused on volume. For seventy years, the industry optimized for filling the bin, often at the expense of the bowl. But a massive paradigm shift is ...

Across the United States, the new generation of hyperscale data centers is starting to rival airports, factories, and even small towns in sheer physical footprint. These campuses stretch for miles, pack in millions of square feet of server space, carry price tags in the tens of billions of dollars…and they’re turning farmland and industrial acreage into some of the hottest ...

NEW FARMCON PODCAST - This week Kevin Van Trump shares his current thoughts on commodities, why he and the family "background" some of their real estate investments and how he got where he is by taking action while others are still researching their next steps. The two then discuss how most people get in their own way while trading, investing ...

I received a lot of positive comments on my recent article about my failures investing in various Ag Startups, and many people asked for more insight into what I would do differently. I've thought about that, and rather than going into a ton of boring detail, I thought I would simply provide one big important litmus test I now ask ...

USDA and the Export-Import Bank recently launched a new partnership to boost the country’s ag exports by making it easier and less risky for American sellers and their lenders to do business with foreign buyers. The partnership is built around a program called the “Financial Assurance to Revitalize Markets,” or “FARM Initiative,” which acts as an umbrella framework for a ...

Corn diseases quietly removed about -2.5 billion bushels of grain between 2020 and 2023 across the United States and Ontario, according to a new multiyear study conducted across the US and Ontario, Canada. On average, the study finds that disease pressure costs producers an estimated $13.8 billion, even in a relatively “lighter” disease window. The full study is available HERE ...

NEW FARMCON PODCAST - This week Kevin Van Trump shares his "bushels are bullets" perspective in regards to his crop marketing, along with other relevant analogies to help producers see the big picture and know when to fire their guns! Kevin and Todd dive into the Macro arena where yields and the stock markets are high and consumer sentiment isn't ...

As many of you know, I am 100% all for year-round E-15 access. But there are many individuals and groups who are not, and I wanted to share the various perspectives. Still, for me, the no-brainer part of the argument is that this is NOT a mandate, but rather simply giving consumers access to E-15 year-round if they want it ...